The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1887-06-25
MISCELLANEOUS.


do not put too much trust in the
man who praises you.--Teras Ssttsngs.
AT recent dinner in Washington.
given by Mrs. Stockton, each guest was
presented with little cage containing
= canary bird. Chicago Herald.
"A suburban justice recently settled
a case in which boy committed an as
sault with a pistol, by committing the
lad and ordering the pistol to be dis
charged. Little Giant.
The King of the Sandwich Islands
has decorated King Malietoa of Samos
with the grand cross of tie royal order
of the Star of Oceana- Owing to bis
general lack of costume the latter mon
arch doesn't know how to pin it on
Chicago Nescs.
An eighteen-year young man
of Richie County. Ind. fell i'll with
measles His grandmother, anxious tc
effect speedy cure and "bring them
ont, placed him between two ticks Of
feathers, with hot stones at his feet and
live sheep alongside him. He died.
An extremely useful cement for ex-
perimental use is made from equal
quantities of gutta-percha and white
pine pitch melted together. The COM
pound should be without Jumps. 1t inn
proves by remelting, and softens at
about the temperature Of boiling water.
Boston Budget.
Deer in the far West are fast going
the way of the buffalo. One dealer in
Jacksonville, Ore. in two months
bought 1900 deer skins, and other deal
ers in Southern Oregon have bought as
many. These were all killed for their
skins only. contrary to law.-Sp1ng-
field TO- Times.
An explorer of prehistoric mounds
in Ohio has found carefully wrought
hatchets of soft coal associated with
human skeletons and bronze ornaments.
From the character of the material it is
evident that these were meant to simu-
late axes of flint. and were of no use
excepting in burials. Golden Rule.
1t is estimated that there is at least
8, 900. 600 invested in fast horses in New
York City. exclusive of the animals kept
for racing purposes. The claim is made
that the owners of these fine creatures
are entitled to special consideration
from the city authorities, who are asked
to lay out Jerome avenue as finished
driveway Boston Transcript.
| "A dispatch from Algeria announces
the death of the greatest lion slayer that
the world has ever seen. Ahmed-ben.
Ahmar, who was last year made q
Knight of the Legion of Honor. he
killed eighty lions and as many PAN
theirs from the time he learned to shoot
until his departure for the happy hunt
ing grounds.
The total consumption of cocoa is
0,000. 900 pounds per annum. supplied
mainly by the West Indies and South
America. France heads the list with
| &c, 200, 900 pounds; Spain comes mex
with 16.OOO,00O pounds; then follow
England, 100000 pounds; and the
United States, $500. 600 pounds. IN Y
Post.
/ "A citizen of Little Falls, N. T., wht
has carefully measured the snowful
there last winter, says that he makes i
fourteen feet and nine inches. an un
precedented depth. The spot where tn
. snow was measured was in q ceda
|, swamp surrounded by trees, which wa
protected in such q manner that NJ
snow blew in or out, and the figures an
supposed to be accurate.
AT recent meeting in Baltimor
of the Freedman's Aid Society, an or
! ganization for the education of Meth
| odist ministers among the negroes o
the South, Secretary T. c. Hartzell sal
that the colored people are increasing
more by births than the whites are b
births and immigration combined. Fiv
, hundred colored babies are born ever
9 twenty-four hours.-N T. Sun.
"A double chicken of the Siamese
i, twin pattern absorbs the attention {
) the people Of Rochefort, Me. 1t ha
. two heads and two pairs of legs, bu
q these several members do not agre
when the chicken takes its, or theil
:. walks abroad-one head and pair {
: flegs trying to shape their course to Ii
:. right, and the balance as PERSISTENT
= working for larboard course.-Bosto
!. Transcript.
h The other day, at Buffalo, N. I
while . steam boiler was being severel
. tested, . terrific explosion occurre'
. and the boiler was hurled several hui
= dred feet into the air. In coming dow
!, it struck the side of q brick buildin
= and tore huge hole in it What WI
" very singular was that the boiler vi
: not broken or shattered, but went =
70 and came down whole, and nobody VI
( injured by the explosion.-N 7. Ledge
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